The guy makes $174,000, enjoys a very nice retirement package and has a medical plan you cannot afford.

But that’s not enough.

He wants you to pay for his house, too.

Only people who really care about politics know that Jason Chaffetz, a congressman from Utah, recently resigned. Ever since he announced his plans to leave Congress, speculation has been rampant for his reasons.

A woman doing yard work near Bozeman was attacked and mauled by two dogs on Saturday. The woman, who is an organ donor, was put on life support after the attack while authorities waited for rabies tests on the dogs to come back, according to the Associated Press.

This horrific event didn’t take place in a far-away state, but right here in Montana. Violent encounters with dogs happen all too often in our neck of the woods.

Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about 4.5 million dog bites take place each year.

The word “landmark” has at least two dictionary meanings – “an object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized…” and “an event, discovery, or change marking an important stage or turning point…”

This weekend is a “landmark-landmark” for Livingston.

Thirty years ago Saturday, a large crowd gathered downtown to celebrate the grand opening of the Livingston Depot Center, the re-birth of the historic train station complex and its conversion to a community, exhibition, cultural and commercial center for the town.

It is safe to say that few people remember the rodeo clown. But it was big news back in August 2013. The contrast between the clown with the mask and events last week are just too notable to, well – not notice.

And that was before the shooting.

It started in August 2013 when a rodeo clown donned a mask of Barack Obama.

So the good Democrats in Hawaii voted last week to ‘fight climate change.’

The legislation came on the heels of President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate arrangement. The decision to leave the non-binding agreement, which did not apply to the world’s biggest CO2 producers for another generation, has liberals in a froth.

In their effort to save the planet, Democrats in Hawaii passed a law to reduce carbon emissions. Reduce carbon emissions in the agriculture sector.

The agriculture sector? That’s picking up pennies while ignoring dollars.

The vigilantes grabbed Bannack Sheriff Henry Plummer from his bed in the middle of a cold January night in 1864 and led him to the gallows outside of town. His entreaties for his life under flickering torchlights were rejected, and he was summarily hanged.

The gallows on which the shady sheriff met his end are gone, but a replica stands on the spot today. You can see it and the amazing preserved gold mining town of Bannack this summer if you get a hankering to visit some Montana ghost towns.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Gulf Arab nations often get considered one giant family, as many ruling tribes intermarried and have long ties stretching back to the days before oil turned dusty fishing villages into skyscraper-studded metropolises.

But if the last day has proven anything, it's that every family fights.

The diplomatic standoff between Qatar and its neighbors has exposed longstanding faults running just under the surface of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a regional body meant to serve as a counterbalance to Iran.